you know, this might be entirely unrelated, but i had the exact same type ofproblem with a brand new machine running a not-so-brand new EE100 nic. icouldn't figure out what was wrong, since it was a literal replacement with anearlier machine with the same general setup (except it was a pentium-90, thiswas a celeron-500-something) ... and in the p-90, that network card never gavea hiccup.

the only way i could get it to stop was to change the network infrastructure.this card was connected to a cisco catalyst 1000 24-port 10T switch and 2-port100T switch. i stuck a generic repeater off one of the 100T ports, jacked theee100 into the repeater, and the problem *went away*.

i thought it was just an anomaly.

if it will help, i can get the info from that machine and post it to thisthread.

cheers,

josh fryman

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